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intermediate

[in-ter-mee-dee-it] / ˌɪn tərˈmi di ɪt /


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At the same time, some contacts across intermediate distances became stronger.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Some of the increase in July was driven by a 4.3% jump in intermediate goods orders—those used to make other products like chemicals or semiconductors.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Since consumer products orders declined 4.8%, it suggests those intermediate goods aren’t being immediately turned into final products.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

A lawyer herself, Harris notes that because the country already has 13 intermediate courts of appeal, a 13-member Supreme Court would allow each justice to review motions from a lower court one-to-one.

From Slate Sep. 3, 2026

As physicists built bigger and more ambitious machines, they began to find or postulate particles or particle families seemingly without number: muons, pions, hyperons, mesons, K-mesons, Higgs bosons, intermediate vector bosons, baryons, tachyons.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

New driver Isack Hadjar crashed in the afternoon in the quick final corner, having just switched from full wet tyres to intermediates.

From BBC Jan. 30, 2026

These radicals are highly useful intermediates in natural product synthesis and pharmaceutical research, but most available techniques are designed for aryl ketones rather than simpler alkyl ketones.

From Science Daily Nov. 26, 2025

That suggests Norris had previously been managing his pace to contain the wear on his intermediates.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2025

The team used electrocatalysis, a type of chemical reaction initiated by electron transfers to and from reactants on surfaces of catalysts, to convert carbon dioxide into biocompatible intermediates, such as acetate and ethanol.

From Science Daily Nov. 14, 2024

We can be almost certain, then, given these assumptions, that two people chosen at random will be linked, as were the strangers on the business trip, by a chain of at most two intermediates.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Analyst Thomas Strong says funding costs are the biggest surprise in Judo’s trading update and he sees them benefiting further from the Australian business lender’s previously announced introduction of intermediated savings deposits from next month.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 22, 2025

Critically, it said a digital dollar would "best suit" U.S. needs if it were intermediated through the current financial system.

From Reuters Jan. 20, 2022

Speech has never been more free or less intermediated, says Nesrine Malik.

From The Guardian Sep. 3, 2019

The SEC’s investigation also concluded that the DAO wasn’t a general partnership made up of its various token holders, because there was a layer of management that intermediated between the fund and its investors.

From The Verge Jul. 27, 2017

Funds and assistance for the preparation of intermediated drafts and logistics support for all stages of preparation of this guide were provided by Biological Systems, Inc.,

From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell

Banks like JPMorgan have been reckoning with the growing popularity of stablecoins, which threaten the traditional role that they have played in intermediating payments between customers around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

We were intermediating and we were hedging our risk.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 21, 2026

Dealers typically support market liquidity by intermediating customer trades - for example, by taking customer sell orders into inventory when buyers are absent.

From Reuters Nov. 8, 2022

Uber embraced the mayor's decision, calling it "the first step toward guaranteeing that apps intermediating travel with technology have a place in the city."

From Reuters May 10, 2016

The subconscious self as intermediating between nature and the higher region— 2.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James




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